Thoughts of Inspiration!

Four Horsemen of Revelation!

1 I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!”

Jesus is the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world! Only Jesus is worthy to open the seven seals. Refer back to Revelation 5. Voice like thunder means they are loud and authoritative.

2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
3 When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”
4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.
5 When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.
6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
7 When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”
8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

The Four Horseman of Apocalypse Revelation 6:2-8
Rev. 6:2 I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
First Horse is White
Study of the Anti-christ in the book of Daniel 7-12 reveals he will be a politician who will rise to power in the Revised Roman Empire AKA European Union. The anti-christ will come into power through peaceful means, after that will seek to destroy anyone who will not give him devotion. Riding on a White horse is a mockery of Jesus riding on a White horse in Revelation 19. White horse symbolizes purity which Anti-christ is not. Remember he will appear to be pure, but will be evil. Also it is note worthy that the teaching of Islam points to their Messiah will be the rider on the white horse. Could it be that Muslims will be helping anti-christ to conquer? Also look at the founder of the Arab Nation, Ishmael in Genesis 16:11-12 The angel of the LORD also said to her: “You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.” Now where will this rider be going to conquer?
Cross reference Zechariah 6:1-8
Rider on white horse is going West, possible pointing to where Anti- Christ rises to power. Revised Roman Empire is west of Israel. This is where EU is centralized.

Rev. 6:4 Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.
Second Horse is Fiery Red
Rider will have power to take peace from the earth. To make men slay each other. (ie Ethnic war, religious war). Jesus said Nation will rise against Nation and kingdom against kingdom in Matthew 24 which will increase until Jesus returns.
Cross reference Zechariah 6:2 Zechariah does not tell which direction the Red horse will be heading. Could it be World Wide?

Rev. 6:5 When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand.
Re 6:6 Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
Third Horse is Black
Rider indicates something about economics.(ie rising food cost. Oil and wine indicates the wealthy will continue to prosper for a time).
Cross reference Zechariah 6:6 Black horse heads toward North Country. Due north of Israel is Russia. Economic collapse will be world wide. Which brings into focus the One World Economy. The anti-christ will control all financial transactions. See Revelation 13:15-17.

Rev. 6:8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Fourth Horse is Pale(dapple green-sickly)
Riders name is Death and Hades follows with him. This horse goes toward the South. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Africa. All these South of Israel. These four Horsemen will have power over a fourth of the Earth. War, starvation, plagues such as Aids, west Nile virus, mad cow, and many others, are pestilence that come from the wild beasts of the Earth. The effects of these horse’s will be worldwide. All four horses are powerful, but only as God allows. Some say Christians will be gone before these riders are released. Some say that Christians will have to persevere. Regardless, we are to Trust in Jesus to provide for Christians. Remember Matthew 6:25-34 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear? For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Jesus is coming soon, so cling to Him and do not let go. Economic collapse, Food shortages, Disease, Earthquakes and Natural Disasters are increasing. It is a great comfort to read and pray for understanding concerning all the events taking place in the world. Luke 21:25-28 “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea, ie (Hurricanes). Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” Lift up your heads (ie Be of good cheer) because our Redemption is drawing near and is at the door.

9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
10 They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”
11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.

The fifth seal, when it is opened, reveals souls of saints of old who were murdered because they refused to reject Jesus as their Savior. There has been millions through the years who lost their lives for Jesus sake! They hold a great testimony indeed. The sight the apostle beheld at the opening the fifth seal was very affecting. He saw the souls of the martyrs under the altar; at the foot of the altar in heaven, at the feet of Christ. Persecutors can only kill the body; after that there is no more they can do; the soul lives. God has provided a good place in the better world, for those who are faithful unto death. It is not their own death, but the sacrifice of Christ, that gives them entrance into heaven. The cause in which they suffered, was for the word of God; the best any man can lay down his life for; faith in God’s word, and the unshaken confession of that faith. They commit their cause to Him to whom vengeance belongs. The Lord is the comforter of his afflicted servants, and precious is their blood in his sight. As the measure of the sin of persecutors is filling up, so is the number of the persecuted, martyred servants of Christ. The Lord will certainly grant their request later in the Tribulation that has certainly started with the opening of the first four seals. As indicated in the eleventh verse the martyrs are given white robes that symbolize the purity that comes only through the Blood of Jesus. They are told to be patient until the rest of the believers, who will become martyrs, join them. Only the Lord knows which believers will be murdered during the Tribulation.

12 I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,

When the sixth seal is opened there will be an earthquake so great that is will cause so much dust that the Sun will not be able to penetrate. The Moon when it shines through the dust caused by this earthquake will look like blood. Some apply it altogether to the Jews, and that their destruction in Judea and at Jerusalem was so dismal, that it was represented to St. John as the darkening of the sun, and the moon looking like blood, and the stars falling, such calamities impending as if heaven and earth were dissolving: doubtless at and before the destruction of Jerusalem there was a confluence of such calamities, so dismal, and so dreadful, as can very difficultly be represented or described. Cross reference to this sixth seal; As Rev 6:4,6-8, the sword, famine, and pestilence, answer to Mt 24:6,7; Re 6:9,10, as to martyrdoms, answer to Mt 24:9,10; so this passage, Re 6:12,17, answers to Mt 24:29,30, “the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven; … then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming”; imagery describing the portents of the immediate coming of the day of the Lord. Also see Joel 2:10, 31.

13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.

Could this be referring to a meteor shower? There will be an Asteroid hit the Earth during the Tribulation. Revelation 8:10. This is the beginning of many Global disasters.

14 The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.

This sounds like an Atomic bomb. Also the results of the other calamities befalling the Earth!

15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”

After the opening of the Tribulation and the many billions of people dying from the results of the calamities described in this chapter people will still not repent of their sins. Instead of fleeing God’s wrath through the Death, burial and Resurrection of Jesus, people will be hiding in caves. What a cry of desperation when they pray that the mountains would fall on them to hide the face of God and the wrath of Jesus who is the Lamb. Listen to Psalm 2:9-12 You will rule them with an iron scepter; you will dash them to pieces like pottery.” Therefore, you kings, be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Good post. I love the book of Revelations. As I read it, I can see the ‘movies’..so to speak..as John describes them. They are AWESOME. A vision, indeed, is equal a thousand words :smile:. I deeply believe the Church will remain on earth until Christ returns in the clouds. The Tribulation will be brief (the miry clay portion of the ten toes of the Image of a Man seen by Nebuchadnezzar) and will culminate with the Return of Christ in all the power of the Son of God. Many teach salvation is possible after Christ gathers the Church. NOT SO! When He appears in the clouds…the Age of Grace ends.

Rev. 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

These people are under the wrath of the Living God. The tortures which they experience are hard to imagine. If repentance were possible at this point…every person WOULD repent. But the time of repentance has passed. These are all reprobates. They are damned. So they curse God because they are of their father, Satan. They HATE God. They HATE the people of God. Like their father, before Christ appears in the Clouds…they were DESTROYING with the vengence of their father. They are evil.

Amen. Carolyn, you made a few statements that most Christian do not believe. I agree with you, the Bible does not say the the Return of Jesus happens before the Tribulation. I also agree that the Age of Grace and Repentance is gone during the Tribulation. Your statement; “I deeply believe the Church will remain on earth until Christ returns in the clouds.” goes against most in the Church today. I agree with you whole heartedly! I have referred in Bible studies these 2 verses which put believers in the Tribulation; Re 13:10 If anyone is to go into captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed {10 Some manuscripts } with the sword, with the sword he will be killed. This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.
And Re 14:12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints who obey God’s commandments and remain faithful to Jesus. Many say these are the ones who repented after Jesus takes the Church. I do not see that. Thanks for stopping and posting comment! I invite you to http://www.proclaiminglight.com to view some Bible studies I have posted on the book of Revelation.

I’m pretty ‘radical’ :smile” in that I take God at His Word. I KNOW He is in charge of the whole deal…everything…us…satan..holding the universe together…running Heaven…times and seasons of earth…EVERYTHING. NOTHING happens which He has not either purposed or permitted. Everything happening in American government and in America…and all around the world…is only by His ‘permission’ and ‘purpose.’ His ways, indeed, are past finding out. So no matter how ‘rough’ things get in this world…and they are getting rougher each day…WE WIN! Satan has NO POWER over the children of God. But the SPIRITUAL WARFARE is raging in ‘high places.’ We must TRUST the Father to ‘battle’ on our behalf. Ony He has power over evil. Only He gives PEACE in the midst of the storm.

bIbpreacher….your site came by email to me when the last comment was posted(rockwell review). As I read earlier comments, I realized I had seemingly left a wrong impression with you in my earlier comments. You said :

“I also agree that the Age of Grace and Repentance is gone during the Tribulation.”

I didn’t intended to leave such an impression through what I said. I interpret scripture to mean ‘tribulation’ is BEFORE the Second Coming of Christ. I deeply am convinced that the age of Grace continues until the MOMENT Christ returns in the Clouds…in a universally VISIBLE return (Ac 1:9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. Ac 1:11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. ).

Whatever the spiritual state of each man at the coming of Christ…is how he remains eternally. I believe scripture is clear concerning the increasing prevalence of evil….ending only at the Return of Christ. The rule and reign of Antichrist (ten toes portion of miry clay which is destroyed by the ‘stone’ of God) is the final government on earth and is STOPPED in its tracks when the clouds open to reveal the Son of God..returning to rule and reign…eternally.

I interpret scripture, by the Holy Spirit, to understand the Six Seal is the ‘gathering of the church’….all those of the faith of Abraham…from the four corners of the earth….which comes immediately as the spiritually blinded/deafened Remnant of Israel is restored through the God-impowered phophesying of Moses and Elias (two witnesses) for three and a half years DURING the Tribulation…which is within measured time…before the End which comes at the return of Christ.

I am convinced in my heart that the final week of Daniel is a spirutual week…under the power and authority of God as respresented by ‘7.’ Whenever it begins..it will consist of the first 3 1/2 years which performs the ‘seating’ of Antichrist….by the purpose and permission of God.
(Re 17:17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. )

During these first 3 1/2 years the rampant warfares of the world will seemingly be abaded by a man who has power to bring peace. He, of course, is replicating the true Prince of Peace. But his is the Son of Satan, whose rule and reign is only by the permission of God…and is Satan’s final hupla of evil. 666 is the fullness of ‘flesh’ or fallen ‘man.’ It is representative of the ‘unsanctified’ 6 day creation of man and his physical earth in the first chapters of Genesis.. 666 is Satan’s attempt to replicate 777 ..or the Holy Trinity. The 7th day, Sabbath, is sanctified, and is within God’s realm…the Spirit realm. 666 is the Unholy Trinity…made up of Unholy Father, Unholy Son, and Unhold Spirit. Their final 3 1/2 years of open rule of evil….is the TRIBULATION…not WRATH. WRATH comes from God upon all wicked mean…including satan and his angels.

I needed to be clear….since..in my heart it is so very important for all to know what is ahead. To understand the danger and power of the ‘spiritual wickedness in high places’ which is only defeated …and is already defeated…by the power of God. But each individual must make his/her own decisions as to which army he/she participates in. We truly do not war against flesh and blood. And the battle is the Lord’s. We cannot continue to serve the flesh and use God as an insurance policity against TRIBULATION. It doesn’t work that way.

1pe 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

GOD IS DEMANDING HOLINESS!!! The modern church of which I am a part….is become the perpetuator of the Doctrine of the Nicolaitanes…which God hates. It is the doctrine which uses the soul-wrenching spiritual and bodily death of the Son of God as a covering for continued SIN! And it is prevalent world-wide. It is the doctrine of devils and is deceiving many. SIN IS SIN…SERVING THE FLESH IS SERVING IS TO SERVE SIN. We have little time left to GET IT RIGHT. We all need to YIELD our bodies at the Temple of God…because ‘without holiness no man will see God.’ We have chosen the doctrine of devils because of our own lust for things of the flesh…and are held in bondage to them….whether drugs, alcohol, food, material things…all are idols which hold us. God will not be monked. We will do it HIS way…or we won’t do it at all. At church yesterday, I sat through a sermon coming from the mouth of a minister I have known and loved for years. But he is deceived. He preached Once saved..always saved. But he left off SANCTIFICATION…HOLINESS…RIGHTEOUSNESS. He said our redemption is based solely on the SANCTIFICATION…HOLINESS…AND RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST. He dismissed scriptures which clearly state we are to be ‘perfect as He is perfect’…to be ‘transformed’…to be ’empowered’…to be HOLY. The warfare of today…and the wickedness in ‘high’ places has set up camps in our churches…in the places we insist is ‘the house of God.’ But God said, ‘What, don’t you know your body is the temple of God?” We are pathetic. I am pathetic! I know His mercy and longsuffering…or He could not bear we who ‘call’ ourselves ‘christian.’ We practice almost EVERYTHING He spoke against. We LUST after pleasure…in whatever form we can find it….by CHOICE. We ‘deny’ ourselves NOTHING. We surely are not willing to lay down our own plans and desires to ‘follow’ Christ. But we console ourselves by saying, ‘God’s grace is sufficient.’

Oh, my. Never meant to get in to all that….or to be so lengthy. Feel free to read and delete. But God is not pleased with today’s church which, like Ephesus, has left its First Love.

Hey Carolyn, I am glad you are following up with our conversation. The Tribulation period is coming upon us quickly! Most “Christians” say the Church will be raptured before the Tribulation begins. This is a heresy that is deceiving many! Scripture does not teach the early out. Scripture teaches 3 1/2 years then the last trumpet. Mt 24:29 “Immediately after the distress of those days “‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
30 “At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory.
31 And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. 1Th 4:14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
15 According to the Lord’s own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 1Co 15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed–
52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. Re 11:15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.”
16 And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,
17 saying: “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.
18 The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great– and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”
19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm. Notice all these verse refer to the “last trumpet”. Also Daniels prophecy; Da 9:27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.” Jesus also confirms this. Mt 24:15 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel– let the reader understand– Mt 24:21 For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now– and never to be equaled again.
22 If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. Now to comment on your statement ” Oh, my. Never meant to get in to all that….or to be so lengthy. Feel free to read and delete. But God is not pleased with today’s church which, like Ephesus, has left its First Love.” Carolyn you are never to lengthy on such an important topic. I agree with you and have cried many nights about the apostasy in the Church! I wrote a small essay that I would like to share with you. It is called ” The church of Vomit.” Just go to http://www.proclaiminglight.com and click on commentaries. One last thing. You said ” I didn’t intended to leave such an impression through what I said. I interpret scripture to mean ‘tribulation’ is BEFORE the Second Coming of Christ. I deeply am convinced that the age of Grace continues until the MOMENT Christ returns in the Clouds…in a universally VISIBLE return.” Yes! The Second coming of Jesus Christ ends the age of repentance and Grace! I never intended to say otherwise, if I mislead you, please except my apology.

Thanks, bigpreacher. So encouraging to find another who understands the truth concerning the important time-line of the gathering of the church. Concerning ‘rapture’…I recently posted (internetelias.wordpress.com) for the second time Corrie Ten Booms letter of 1974 where she discusses the dangers of misleading Christians so they are not prepared to ‘endure’ to the end during time of tribulation. The letter is heart-wrenching. I’m about to read your link. And thanks, again, for responding.

Read ‘Church of Vomit.’ WOW. Dead on! And as I read about Beck, I was reminded of those like my sweet older sister who truly believes the Republican Party is God’s arm in the world. I am not joking. She believes EVERYTHING she hears on Fox News. And she belong to a group of millions who feel the same way. She see’s no political agenga when they speak against ‘social justice’. She seems to apply ‘love they neighbor as thyself’ as a Sunday practice only. She and thousands of church members have believed the lie that Democrats are vile. The greatest sin of our time is that politics is being perpetuated from the pulpits of America in these Churches of Vomit. Beck’s words against churches speaking for ‘social justice’…especially those spoken againt Wright…are words of dissention, confusion, and judgement. They are not of God. And poeple are without excuse when they do not discern true from lie, fact from fiction, love from hate.

Very important and timely essay. But those who would benefit…will likely not read it.